Jeanne Mammen: City of Women at the Des Moines Art Center, September 10-December 12, 2010. From the museum’s website: “A sharp observer of urban life, Mammen was among the first generation of female artists able to live independently, allowing her the chance to roam about 1920s and 30s Europe with a freedom only male artists had previously enjoyed. Unsurprisingly, her images often focus on other independent women, from haughty socialites and fashionable middle class shop girls to street singers and prostitutes.”
Here’s a link to the Jeanne Mammen Foundation. And another to a Flickr set of her work.
